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Civil War America : Making a Nation, 1848-1877.
The American Civil War was without doubt the defining event in the history of the United States. This up-to-date analyisis of a critical period goes beyond the origins, course and consequences of the Civil War to bring in other important themes such as racial conflict, gender relations, religion, th...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2014.
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| Colección: | Longman history of America.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Civil War America; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Maps; Note on the text; Prologue. Independence Day, 1854; 1. A Robber and a Jailer: The Antebellum Republic; National development and national identity; Slavery and the antebellum South; Life in the 'free states'; The second party system; 2. Bitter Fruit of an Unjust War: The Politics of Slavery Expansion, 1848-52; The political impact of the Mexican War; The presidential election of 1848; The Compromise of 1850; The Democrats ascendant, 1850-52.
- 3. Political Crises of the 1850sThe Kansas-Nebraska Act; Politics in flux; The Republican threat; The eclipse of national Democracy and the election of Lincoln; 4. The Disunited States: Secession and Civil War; Secession and the outbreak of war, 1860-61; The chimera of victory, 1861-62; The triumph of Union arms, 1863-65; 5. Our Deliverance is Nigh: The Quest for Southern Independence; Born in the CSA?: The unusual case of southern nationalism; Confederate mobilization and state formation; Nova ordo servorum; Onward Christian soldiers; The death of slavery and the collapse of the Confederacy.
- 6. Last Full Measure of Devotion: The Union in WartimeMultiple agendas; Government initiatives; Dissent and democracy; Restoring the Union: Phase one; Victory!; 7. War by Any Other Name: The Struggle over Reconstruction, 1865-76; The aftermath of war; Congressional Reconstruction; Black life in the postwar South; The South redeemed; 8. Land of Gold: The Far West in the Mid-Nineteenth Century; The mining frontier; The subjugation of the Plains Indians; Toward a modern West; The tribulations of Henry Eno; 9. Reform, Reaction and Reunion at the Dawn of the Gilded Age.
- The economy and society of postwar AmericaOrganizing for reform; Faltering steps to reconciliation; The electoral crisis of 1876-77; Conclusion. The Proving Time: The United States in the Era of Civil War; Select Bibliography; Index.